Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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VILLAGE, OLYMPIC, COVID, 19
Tokyo A person has tested positive for Covid-19 at the Tokyo Olympics athletes' village, organizers said on Saturday, in the first such case that adds to concerns about infections at the Games which begin next week.
Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto confirmed that
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DACA, RULING, BIDEN, JUDGE
President Barack Obama’s “DACA” work-permit program is illegal because it violates the immigration laws that protect working Americans from losing jobs and wages to illegal migrants, a Texas judge wrote Friday.
“Even Defendants-Intervenors’ own experts could
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TEXAS, COVID, DEMOCRATS, POSITIVE
Vaccinated U.K. Health Secretary Tests Positive For COVID-19
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Sajid Javid, the top government official tasked with leading the United Kingdom's coronavirus response, announced Saturday that he has
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FILE PHOTO: People walk down Via del Corso street amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Rome, Italy, April 24, 2021. REUTERS/Remo Casilli FILE PHOTO: People walk down Via del Corso street amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Rome,
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BIZ, MARKIE, FRIEND, RAPPER
Fans of Biz Markie, including many celebrities, took to social media to share touching tributes to the hip-hop pioneer after news of his death was announced on Friday. He was 57.
Questlove wrote in a lengthy Instagram post that the rapper-DJ “built me.”
“In
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JOHN, LEWIS, YEAR, DEATH
House lawmakers commemorated the one-year anniversary marking the death of the late Rep. John Lewis, Georgia Democrat, on Saturday.
Mr. Lewis, who died at the age of 80 on July 17, 2020, was remembered by his former colleagues as a champion of civil rights,
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MASK, MANDATE, COUNTY, SHERIFF
Los Angeles County brings back mask requirements
Public health officials say a rapid and sustained increase in COVID cases requires them to bring back the mask mandate.Starting this weekend, Los Angeles County will require all residents to once again wear
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SHOOTING, PORTLAND, DOWNTOWN, WOUNDED
An early Saturday shooting in downtown Portland, Oregon, has left at least eight people injured, according to authorities.
All victims are being treated, and at least one person has life-threatening injuries after the shooting that occurred at 2:10 a.m. on
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LAB, LEAK, OFFICIALS, BIDEN
The “most likely” origin for COVID-19 is in nature in the absence of any recent “concrete evidence” supporting the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis, according to President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is director of the National Institute
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GOLF, DECHAMBEAU, BRITISH, DRIVER
Golf - The 149th Open Championship - Royal St George's, Sandwich, Britain - July 16, 2021 Brooks Koepka of the U.S. on the eighteenth hole during the second round REUTERS/Rebecca Naden Golf - The 149th Open Championship - Royal St George's, Sandwich, Britain
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DEATH, TOLL, EUROPE, 150
Rescue workers labored to clear up damage laid bare by receding water Saturday as the death toll from disastrous flooding in Western Europe rose above 150 and thoughts turned to the lengthy job of rebuilding communities devastated in minutes.
Police said that
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TEXAS, BORDER, APPREHENDED, BIDEN
Agents in the five Texas-based Border Patrol sectors apprehended more than 730,000 so far this fiscal year. The apprehensions account for more than two-thirds of the more than one million migrants apprehended along the U.S. southwestern border with Mexico.
Border
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RALLY, GAETZ, GREENE, VENUE
The “America First” Rally scheduled for the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA tonight has been abruptly canceled.
Saturday evening’s “America First” rally at the Anaheim Event Center has been canceled. Anaheim officials say they expressed safety concerns
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DC, YEAR, SHOOTING, GIRL
Police are asking for the public's help in identifying the shooters.
Six people were injured and one 6-year-old girl killed in a shooting that took place in Washington, D.C., Friday night.
The Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia released
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GUARD, COAST, BOSTON, HARBOR
Authorities say a Florida man crashed a stolen car through an airport fence and got into a Coast Guard airplane’s cockpit before he was arrested
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- A Florida man crashed a stolen car through an airport fence and got into a Coast Guard airplane's
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JENNER, CAITLYN, AUSTRALIA, CAMPAIGN
Has Caitlyn Jenner hit pause on the race to replace Gavin Newsom as governor of California?
The former Olympian and transgender Republican will be leaving California to participate in filming of the upcoming season of “Celebrity Big Brother Australia”, in
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POPE, MASS, LATIN, RESTRICTIONS
The San Francisco archbishop said traditional Latin masses will continue in his diocese despite Pope Francis restricting the celebrations on Friday.
"The Mass is a miracle in any form: Christ comes to us in the flesh under the appearance of Bread and Wine.
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DEATH, RIPPER, HOLLYWOOD, SENTENCED
LOS ANGELES (AP) — For crimes he called "vicious and frightening," a judge on Friday gave a death sentence to a man prosecutors called "The Boy Next Door Killer" for the home-invasion murders of two women and the attempted murder of a third.
Victims’ family
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PENCE, BIDEN, IOWA, TRUMP
President Joe Biden’s administration unleashed a ''tidal wave of left-wing policies that threaten to wipe out all the progress'' the Trump administration made, former Vice President Mike Pence said Friday during a speech in Iowa that sparked more speculation
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AIR, HOT, DIES, BALLOON
In a harness he created, Brian Boland, of Post Mills, Vt., takes off attached to a hot-air balloon with a passenger above Westshire Elementary School in West Fairlee, Vt., on Feb. 26, 2013. Boland, 72, the pilot of a hot-air balloon that had been carrying a
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JAYS, BLUE, TORONTO, HOME
A long-awaited return to Canada is in store for the Toronto Blue Jays after the team was granted National Interest Exemption to return to Rogers Centre in Downtown Toronto, starting July 30.
The team had previously played their "home" games in Dunedin, Florida
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